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INTERVIEW: Parents of the Black man fatally shot in the face by Hoover police in an Alabama mall demand answers

While protestors are demanding that the Hoover Police Department release video from the police body cameras and mall surveillance in the shooting death of E.J Bradford, his parents are preparing to lay him to rest.

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VIDEO: Police officer fired after taunting Black and Hispanic kids ‘I’m a little trigger-happy’

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. A Hartford, Connecticut police officer has been terminated this week after he was caught on video taunting a […]

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White cop who lectured black kids playing with a BB gun in viral video praised on CNN but Twitter has thoughts

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. An Ohio police officer who stopped himself from shooting a black child when he realized he was holding […]

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#blackonblue, BB guns, Gun Violence, News, Video - October 17, 2018

‘I could’ve killed you’: Ohio police officer lectures boys with BB gun

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. In a tense exchange that was captured on body cam, an Ohio police officer lectures two young boys about […]

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Chicago police release video of off-duty officer shooting unarmed autistic Black teen

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Video released this week by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, shows an off-duty Chicago police sergeant opening fire and wounding an unarmed autistic man […]

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Free NYC art exhibit, ‘Museum of Broken Windows’ brings powerful examples of police abuse to life

The Museum of Broken Windows, a one-week only, pop-up exhibition hosted by the New York Civil Liberties Union features 30 artists and 60 words from around the country.

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Detroit police chief fires white officer who made reference to ‘zoo animals’

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. The Detroit police chief has fired a rookie white police officer who used his Instagram account to make […]

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Botham Jean’s mother, Allison describes her painful loss and why she doesn’t believe the officer who killed her son is telling the truth

Watch theGrio's interview with Allison Jean who simply does not believe Amber Guyger is telling the truth about her son, Botham's death.

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Graphic bodycam video shows Chicago police shooting Terrell Eason

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. Thursday, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability released body camera video showing officers fatally shooting an armed man […]

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Police admit to framing a Black man who did 5 years in jail and then was deported back to Haiti

Former Florida police chief Raimundo Atesiano is accused of ordering his officers to trump up charges against innocent Black men so that his department could maintain an impressive record.

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Baltimore Police Department seeks millennial and minority candidates in new marketing campaign

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. Baltimore City officials are calling on “millennial, minority, female, and ‘ideal’ candidates” to fill 90 officer vacancies in […]

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NYPD arrest and drag unconscious Black man as neighbors go off

A new video shows dozens of NYPD officers dragging an unconscious 22-year old Keith Woody from a house in Harlem, then dropping him on the street next to a police cruiser.

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Politicians discuss changes to state law in wake of Antwon Rose shooting

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. Police and state lawmakers alike agree that state laws need to be updated in the wake of […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Pregnant Florida mom, Kirenda Welch, shares her story of jail beating and racial taunts by Jacksonville corrections officer

Kirenda Welch believes there are too many instances of unfairness, race and violence between people of color and law enforcement and she shares her story with theGrio.com to begin to put an end to it.

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Sister Soldier: The Story of Victoria Davis

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation or share your own story using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. Victoria Davis sold her car. The logic was that if she wasn’t driving it a police officer […]

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Video captures police officers using stun gun on sitting man

A Pennsylvania police officer is seen on video using a stun gun on a man as he’s sitting on a curb. Lancaster police says officers were called around 10 a.m. Thursday and told a man was confronting people with a bat. –White woman attacks family with racial slurs while they celebrate birthday party– Video posted […]

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Antwon Rose’s parents break their silence: ‘He murdered my son in cold blood’

Antwon Rose's parents sat down with ABC News to break their silence about the loss of their son and the police officer who fatally shot him last week in a suburb of Pittsburgh.

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Demonstrators shut down highway in protest of fatal police shooting of unarmed teen Antwon Rose

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue.Protesters demanding answers in Tuesday night’s fatal shooting by an East Pittsburgh police officer of unarmed teen Antwon […]

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5 Things to know about Antwon Rose, the unarmed Black teen gunned down by East Pittsburgh police

In honor of Antown Rose's life and to ensure that his narrative in the media is an honest one, here are five things to know about the young man.

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VIDEO: White police officer fired after pulling over daughter’s Black boyfriend in bogus traffic stop ‘We’ll make sh*t up as we go’

A police officer in Lorain, Ohio, outside Cleveland, was fired after being caught on dashcam video detaining his daughter’s Black boyfriend without cause, the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram is reporting. John Kovach, Jr. was fired after an internal investigation concluded he abused his authority by conducting a traffic stop on 18-year-old Makai Coleman and his daughter Katlyn […]

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Police officer who fatally shot unarmed teen Antwon Rose identified

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. Officials in Allegheny County, Penn., have identified the East Pittsburgh police officer who shot and killed an […]

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Shooting death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose by police officer who was on the job for one day sparks protest

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. In the latest case of an unarmed Black male dying at the hands of police, the East Pittsburgh […]

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VIDEO: Heartbreaking clip shows Chicago police handcuffing 10-year-old boy saying he fit the description

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue. Chicago police are now under investigation after an incident caught on camera showed an distraught 10-year-old boy being […]

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Attorney Benjamin Crump talks about his new crime show “Evidence of Innocence” exploring the nightmare of being incarcerated when you’re truly innocent

Evidence of Innocence," a four-part limited series event, premieres Monday, June 4 at 10 pm ET. on TV One.

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Video showing fatal police shooting of unarmed Black man raises more questions, family says

Body-camera footage showing the fatal police shooting of Marcus-David Peters after he was hit with a stun gun raised more questions than it provided answers, the man’s family said after viewing the footage. Peters was naked and unarmed when he emerged from his car and ran toward the officer on Interstate 95 in Richmond, Va. […]

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Police officers who tasered Sterling Brown ‘disciplined’ after body cam footage released

Back in January, Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown, was assaulted and arrested by police over an alleged parking violation and now body cam footage has revealed foul play on the part of the police. The footage was released on Wednesday and shows the NBA player being tasered by cops after they questioned him about […]

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Anthony Wall, the Black man choked by police officer at Waffle House, says server hurled N-word and he’s received violent threats since the incident

Waffle House is under fire yet again for another accusation by a Black patron of racial and now sexual orientation discrimination.

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‘Stupid, irresponsible, expensive display of fear’: Bob Marley’s granddaughter Donisha Prendergast on police response to Airbnb incident

Donisha Prendergast, grand-daughter of reggae legend Bob Marley, says she and her friends deserved more respect when they had a run-in with Rialto, CA police officers late last month.

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MLK daughter Bernice King urges Waffle House boycott after video of Black man choked by cop surfaces

Bernice King is urging the public to boycott Waffle House after a disturbing video of a black man being choked and body slammed at the restaurant surfaced on Facebook. The daughter of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. and CEO of The King Center posted the story about a North Carolina police officer choking […]

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